Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-07-15
MINOR NOTES.

Inc story Is tod OF one promising Yer
mont lad who makes cider brandy in his
mothers teapot. He learned how from the
information given in the new Compulsory
temperance Textbooks
Some Of the fruits of Democratic ore
form in the New York custom house are
an increase Of 10000 per annum in the
payments for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS not com
ing under the civil service rules-and an
increase Of 100000 in the contingent" ex-
penses Of the surveyors Office
Canada has debt equal to $40 per head
of population. The debt of the United
States is about 500 per head and rapidly di-
minishing.
A committee Of the board of education of
New York city has reported in favor Of in
Producing manual training into the public
schools
Gen. Sherman and family have taken a
cottage at Lake George for the season.
The empress of Japan, accompanied by a
retinue of 20 persons, will visit the United
States in October.
The fall by its own weight of new trestle-
work railroad bridge on the Illinois Central
within few minutes after the engineer of
the state commissioners had pronounced it
sound and sufficient is a discouraging reve-
lation Of human fallibility The experience.
ed builder was among the killed.
Some Of the veterans are amused by the
Presidents allusion, in his Illinois letter, to
Missouri as a southern state" for they
think that it implies an idea that it was one
of the Confederate states" referred 10 in
his hattle-flag nissive, and ignorance of the
fact that Missouri never seeded. but gave
100, 600 soldiers to the Union army.
Gen. Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania.
who is close on to 30 years old, has gone t.
England to study English politics ON the
spot. He sailed from New York on Wednes.
day.
A committee is being organized at Genoa
to arrange for celebration of the 4OOth
anniversary of the discovery of America
10y Columbus All the states of America
will he invited to send representatives t.
| the celebration.
The New Hampshire legislature has been
in session six weeks, and has done practi-
cally nothing but prepare the way for a
grand railroad fight, which is now raging
in the legislative halls
The New York Times thinks the imposi.
ton of practicable test upon immigrant.
is the coming live issue 1t looks to see
the term of residence required for natural
ization extended from five to ten years.
Robert Giffen, the statistician Of the Brit
ish board of trade, calculates from the fir
nres Of ceItain banking houses that the re-
mittances from America to Ireland in 3,
years have amounted to over $3.50, 900, OOO
and that for six years these remittance,
have been S1,425,OO0 annually.
After losing 81 800. 600 in wages the
strike Of the bricklayers and stone mason.
at Chicago has been settled by arbitration,
and neither side is better off than it wa,
before
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says that the Knights Of Labor have lost
$500, 900 members the past IA months, and
that the dissolution of the order is immi
nent. The American Federation of Labor
now numbers over 500, 600 men, or n,
many as the Knights, and is rapidly grow
ing.
Hon. f. j. Phelps, our minister to Eng
land, has been appointed professor of con
stitutional law in the law department Of
Boston university.
The composition of the new Hawaiian
ministry has a somewhat English cast. Tn,
premier and minister of finance are Eng
lishmen, and the attorney general, though
a naturalized American citizen, is of Eng
fish descent. The minister of the interior
is young American-the only one in the
cabinet.
At the opening session of the natona
educational association at Chicago on Tues
day evening, the immense hall of the expo
sition building was filed as only political
convention has ever filled it before. 1t il
estimated that 5000 people were present.
President Cleveland is this week on a Wis
it to his relatives in New York.
Eugene Marlitt, the German novelist
whose works, translated by Mrs Wister
have enjoyed such popularity in this coun
try, died recently in Thuringia She wa
for many years a companion of the Princess
Sonderhausen.
Contagious diseases have caused an unus
ual number of deaths in New York city thi
year, and the board of health is moving il
the matter Smallpox and typhoid fevel
have hitherto been the only diseases to re
ceive the special attention of the health Off
GERS, but all contagious diseases are now Il
be looked after, and where the patient can
not be isolated at home he will be removed
To a hospital.